Apr 3 Liberty League honors five Thoroughbrds

The Liberty League has honored five Skidmore athletes for their performances last week. The following five were winners of this week's awards:

Women's Tennis:Nataly Mendoza '13 was named the Performer of the Week after going undefeated against Vassar College. Mendoza won the number one singles match with scores of 6-1, 6-3, and then teamed with Lee Ford '14 as the number one doubles pairing to win 8-4 Caroline Hobbs '16 earned Rookie of the Week after winning 6-4, 6-4 at number six singles against Vassar College.

Softball: Cassie Fishkin '16 pitched all seven innings against Cazenovia, striking out four and allowing one unearned run on four hits. She also had a homerun against Cazenovia and was five for 13 at the plate on the weekend, which included two games each against Cazenovia and Utica. Carol Brown '13 earned Performer of the Week for her work at the plate in games against Utica and Cazenovia. Brown had five hits in 12 at-bats, earned four walks, hit in two RBIs and scored four runs.

Men's Lacrosse: Matt Ohara '15 was named to the Honor Roll for his performance against Vassar. Ohara scored a career-high five goals, forced one turnover and scooped up one groundball in the 14-4 Thoroughbred win.

Heated diversity discussions that have embroiled Skidmore students and faculty for the last several years reemerged forcefully during the November Faculty meeting. Two of the initiatives that have emerged will be to build a social justice center and to start an Africana Studies Program.